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Civilians support for the truce between the government and the militants Leo de Lile in Colombo, 9.00 pm, SLT, March. 07, 2002. Buddhist monks and other religious leaders join Hindu and Christian civilians to hold candles supporting first mutually agreed truce between the government and the militants in seven years, at Fort railway station in Colombo. Hundreds of people gathered to support the cease-fire agreement saying that it would be a good foundation to end the 18-year civil conflict, which has killed more than 64,000 people More... Published: Thu Mar 7 10:13:02 EST 2002

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Ask Mahinda Answers 1-28 now available! The Lanka Academic is delighted to announce the 8th guest in its series of Q & A sessions: Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan Parliament. With the recent change in leadership in the Sri Lankan government, the peace process appears to be gaining fresh new momentum. This is your opportunity to ask questions from Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa related to Sri Lankan politics and receive answers by clicking here. The answers will appear here.

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SLMM deputy chief arrives Colombo today Saroj Pathirana in London, Thursday 07/03/02 1845 GMT. Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Hagrup Haukland arrives Colombo today along with another group of Norwegian truce monitors...

S.Lankan President Calls for Women's Greater Role Nothern Light, Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:01 PM EST . Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga called on women to play a major role in the country's peace process as it is women who have suffered most as a result of the war...

Jaya writes to PM on fishermen Yahoo India, 08 March 2002. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa tonight requested Prime Minister A B Vajpayee to exert diplomatic pressure on Sri Lanka for early release of 22 fishermen from Nagapattinam, allegedly imprisoned in Jaffna...

Sri Lanka to Set Up Energy Committee on Power Crisis Nothern Light, Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:55 PM EST . The Sri Lankan government has passed legislation to set up an Energy Supply Committee considered necessary to find a solution to the country's power crisis, the official Daily News reported on Friday...

Indian Trade Curbs Signal Bleak Future for Region Yahoo India, 08 March 2002. India's mounting trade barriers, which are restricting access to the goods and commodities of its small neighbouring states to the biggest South Asian market, are singalling a bleak future for the South Asian Association for Regional Corporation (Saarc)...

Cricket - Sangakkara century puts Sri Lanka in control Yahoo India, Thursday March 7, 4:25 PM. Kumar Sangakkara advanced to his highest test score of 161 not out on Thursday to maintain Sri Lanka's domination of the Asian Test Championship final against Pakistan...

Power and energy minister promises crisis over in two months Waruna Karunatilake in Colombo, 1332 slt 07.03.02. Power and energy minister Karu Jayasuriya told parliament today that the current power crisis would be solved within two months...

U.N. calls for aid for Sri Lankan refugees IANS/Yahoo, 08 March 2002. The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that thousands of Sri Lankans made refugees by the ethnic conflict in the island could go hungry if foreign donor nations don't dole out more food...

Murali '1000 wickets' Daily Telegraph, 08 March 2002. Shane Warne has tipped Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan to take 1000 Test wickets - double what most critics thought possible barely a decade ago...

Legislation to repeal criminal defamation laws ready for cabinet approval Waruna Karunatilake in Colombo, 1326 slt 07.03.02. The government has finalized legislation to repeal criminal defamation laws...

China welcomes Ceasefire Agreement Daily News, Friday, 8 March 2002. Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Jiang Qinzheng on Tuesday welcomed the signing of a Ceasefire Agreement between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE last month and said that it is also the wish of the Government and the People of the People's Republic of China that the war be ended for the future well-being of all Sri Lankan communities...

Vietnam Welcomes Cease-Fire Agreement in Sri Lanka Nothern Light, Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:57 AM EST . HANOI, Mar 7, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Vietnam welcomes the cease-fire agreement between the separatists Tamil Tiger rebels and the Sri Lanka government, said a Vietnamese spokeswoman at a regular press conference here Thursday...

Postal voting in the local government elections begin Waruna Karunatilake in Colombo, 1336 slt 07.03.02. Postal voting in the local government election began this morning...

Ceasefire strong base to end war: LTTE chief Deccan Herald, COLOMBO, March 7 (Reuters/PTI) The reclusi. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chieftain Velupillai Prabhakaran also praised the role of Norway, under fire from nationalist and Buddhist groups in the south, for bringing the two sides closer to the negotiating table...

Tamils in Trinco unhappy about LTTE's recruitment drive Ranmali Wijesuriya in Colombo, SLT 12.30 p.m Thursday 7 March. Members of the Tamil community in Trincomalee have expressed their unhappiness about LTTE's recruitment drive in the area Lanka Academic sources in Trincomalee revealed today...

Sri Lankan fishermen pressured to end protests during ceasefire talks WSWS, 08 March 2002. Fishermen on the Jaffna peninsula in northern Sri Lanka were compelled last month to end eight days of protests against the military’s severe restrictions on their fishing activities...

Monitors urged to assist in demining Gulf-News, 08 March 2002. Tamil guerrilla chief Velupillai Prabhakaran made a strong appeal yesterday to international monitors observing the current ceasefire between the guerrillas and the Sri Lankan government, to assist in demining the northern region and re-open a key highway which runs through rebel-held territory...

Cricket - Sangakkara credits father after double hundred Yahoo India, 08 March 2002. Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara paid tribute to his father on Thursday after becoming only the sixth wicketkeeper to score a test double hundred...

IFFK: films for competition section selected The Hindu (Southern States), 08-03-2002 . T. K. Rajeevkumar's `Shesham' and T...

Government to lift the ban on Tamil Tigers- Minister Saroj Pathirana in London, Wednesday 06/03/02 1805 GMT. Sri Lankan government will soon de-proscribe the LTTE, newly appointed cabinet minister said...

Giving up Ealam; Too Early to Comment says Tamilselvan Saroj Pathirana in London, Wednesday 06/03/02 1805 GMT. The LTTE are satisfied with the initiatives taken by the Sri Lankan government to establish a regular peace process, a senior leader of the organisation said...

Sri Lankan President Expresses Commitment to Peace Process People's Daily, Wednesday, March 06, 2002. Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga is fully committed to the Norwegian-brokered peace process despite her reservation over some clauses in the ceasefire agreement between the government and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, presidential spokesman Harim Peiris said on Wednesday

Ajantha de Zoysa released on bail Frederica Jansz in Colombo, 1.10 p.m. SLT Wednesday March 6. National list MP for the Peoples Alliance, Ajantha de Zoysa was today released on bail after having been remanded yesterday by the Kandy magistrate...

Court issues notice on Air Force commander Frederica Jansz in Colombo, 1 p.m. SLT Wednesday March 6. Notice was issued today on Air Force Chief Jayalath Weerakkoddy in connection with a writ application filed in the Appeal Court of Colombo...

CRICKET It's all or nothing for inconsistent Atapattu IHT, 07 March 2002. Few cricketing virtues are more prized - by coaches, selectors and teammates alike - than consistency...

Non-LTTE outfits face political oblivion The Hindu (International), 07 March 2002. Sri Lanka's former Tamil militant groups, which gave up the armed struggle in 1987 at India's persuasion, are now coming to grips with the reality that their decision to join the country's democratic political mainstream has got them nowhere...

Fishermen observe bandh Yahoo India, 07 March 2002. A bandh was observed in the district today demanding immediate action by the authorities for securing the release of 12 fishermen from here who were detained by the Sri Lankan navy last month...

Sri Lanka link to burnt body BBC, 07 March 2002. Police believe the teenager whose badly burnt body was found in a north London park was alive seconds before being set on fire...

Chandrika will not scuttle peace bid Gulf-News, 07 March 2002. The Norwegian-backed peace process aimed at ending Sri Lanka's Tamil minority ethnic conflict has sailed through the first round of protest without strong opposition with President Chandrika Kumaratunga reiterating that she had reservations about it but she would not scuttle the peace initiative...

Sri Lankan research body against Indian coconut imports IANS/Yahoo, 07 March 2002. A government move to import coconuts to Sri Lanka, including from India, has been slammed by a research authority warning that foreign bugs and diseases could infect the island's indigenous plantations...

Mammoth win for elephant polo team CNN, 07 March 2002. Sri Lanka -- It is possibly the heaviest and biggest sporting team on the planet, outweighing the more popular and world famous basketball, cricket and football sides that grace television screens and newspapers...

Pakistan 234 All Out, Sri Lanka 94/1 Yahoo/REUTER, March 6, 2002. Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya cuts a delivery from Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar (not in picture) on the opening day of the Asian Test Championship final in Lahore March 6,2002...

Ceasefire Challenged in court by JVP and SU Daily Mirror, March 6, 2002. Another two writ applications had been filed in the court of Appeal on Monday by the leader of the Sihala Urumaya and the General Secretary of the JVP against the Prime Minister, the LTTE leader and 24 others...

Sri Lanka Activists Demand Action Against Torture in Police Custody Yahoo, 07 March 2002. Human rights activists are pressing the government of Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremasinghe to take action against policemen accused of torturing four men held in custody last month...

Kumaratunga wants to cooperate with PM to solve ethnic strife Press Trust of India, Colombo,Wednesday, March 06, 2002. Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga today sought to end a tense stand-off between Sri Lanka's rival power centres, declaring her intent to join Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in pursuing peace, despite sharp differences over his controversial truce deal with the LTTE...

LTTE prepares to move in Hindu, 06 March 2002. In this village deep inside the LTTE-controlled territory, a group of people waited at the main LTTE office to see the area leader, Sivagnyanam Karikalan...

Sri Lanka Buddhist monks protest Norway peace bid Yahoo India, Tuesday March 5, 5:36 PM . Sri Lanka's powerful Buddhist clergy joined a growing chorus of protests against a Norwegian peace bid on Tuesday as Nordic ceasefire monitors prepared to meet the reclusive leader of the Tamil Tiger guerrillas...

Parliamentary debate on truce concludes Tamilnet, 06 March 2002. The two-day Parliamentary debate on permanent ceasefire agreement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers concluded Tuesday evening with a winding up speech by the Constitutional Affairs Minister Professor G...

Lanka to host Asian Track and Field Championship NDTV/MSNBC, March 6, 2002. Sri Lanka will host the Asian Track and Field Championships in August...

Pakistan all out for 234 Cricinfo, 07 March 2002. The crowd gradually building up was in a merry mood when the game resumed after lunch...

Sri Lanka to Establish Industrial Zone for Handicraftsmen Nothern Light, Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:19 PM EST . Sri Lankan Minister of Rural Economy and Deputy Finance Minister Bandula Gunawardena has announced that the government will set up an industrial zone for the benefit of handicraftsmen at Sigiriya, some 170 kilometers northeast of capital Colombo, where a former rock fortress stands...

Sri Lanka make inroads BBC South Asia, 06 March 2002. Sri Lanka have made a series of inroads on the first day of the Asian Test Championship to leave Pakistan requiring a rescue operation Pakistan struggled to 108-4 in the morning session after being put in to bat...

Sri Lanka eases curbs on Tamils to push peace bid MSNBC, 6 March, 2002. Sri Lanka's military relaxed its grip on minority Tamils in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, lifting a series of travel and other restrictions ahead of peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels...

Truce Monitors in Sri Lanka to Meet Tamil Rebel Leader People's Daily, 10:13 AM SLT. Truce Monitors in Sri Lanka to Meet Tamil Rebel Leader Trond Furuhovde, head of the monitoring team overseeing truce in Sri Lanka left capital Colombo Wednesday to have talks with separatist Tamil Tiger rebel leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran in the rebel-held Wanni area in the north of the country, diplomatic sources said...

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